Engine Masters Challenge, CHI Heads, and Cobras

[Commander]

Originally Posted by KevinM

That's interesting. I find it very hard to believe they would divert one of their engine casting operations to make a handful of special blocks. They can't machine them on any of the transfer lines for the modular engines, and I'm sure they no longer have the old transfer lines set up from from the 5.0 - 5.8 days. Now I am really curious where they are being cast and machined.

Kevin

could it be they've set up for Hurricane production, which'll use the same block material?

The original thread started out wondering why the CHI heads weren't seeing more purchases with the most recent results from a contest. I read the rules of that contest and it severely limits the heads that are allowed in. Race heads are specifically excluded. Some people are interested in performance for its own sake, many are here, but a large volume of customers will only be interested in re-creating a memory, and those memories will be of "pure" Clevelands or "Side-Oilers".

I don't mind that people don't know every lit bit of trivia about a subject. I get a little bent when they denigrate a competitor undeservedly though.